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O. H. KAPP.

BUTTON.

No. 275,218. Patented Apr. 3,1883.

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BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 275,218, dated April 3,1883.

Application filed December 16, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that; I, CORNELIUS H. KAPP, of the city, county, and Stateof New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements-inButtons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to improvements in the construction ofbuttons,whereby scrap pieces of mother-of-pearl or other more expensivematerial can be utilized on buttons of born or other cheaper material ina reliable manner; and the invention consists of a button of horn orother suitable cheap material, having face recesses or panels, andfillingpieces of mother-of-pearl, that are secured -by screws or rivetsthereto.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1, 3, and 5 represent front viewsof my improved button; and Figs. 2, 4, and 6 are central sections of thesame on lines :0 m, y y, and z 2, Figs. 1, 3, and 5.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents a button of horn, vegetable ivory, or other suitablematerial, the face of which is provided with suitable recesses orpanels, to which are applied small filling-pieces B, of mother-of-pea-rlor other ornamental and more expensive material than that of which thebutton is made. The filling-pieces B, of mother-of-pearl, are securelyattached to the body of the button by means of small metallic screws orrivets 0, whereby a reliable connection of the panels is obtainedwithout any possibility of their getting detached, while at the sametime the heads of the fastening screws or rivets form an ornamentalfeature of the button.

The style and design of the button may be greatly varied, the essentialfeature in all cases being the utilization of small scrap pieces ofmother-of-pearl or other more expensive material on buttons of cheapermaterial in such a manner that they cannot be detached by wear.

Buttons with mother-of-pearl facings or fillings, which have beencemented on,have been used heretofore; but they had the disadvantagethat the fillings were liable to get detached by handling or wear, so asto injure the appearance of the button, which is entirely overcome by myimproved construction.

Having thus described myinvention, Iclaim asnew and desireto secure byLetters Patent- A button of born or other suitable material, havingrecesses in its face filled with scraps of mother-of-pearl or otherornamental or suitable material, secured by means of screws or rivets,substantially as described.

In testimony that Iclaim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CORNELIUS H. KAPP.

Witnesses:

PAUL GoEPEL, SIDNEY MANN.

